Channel 5's Amanda Owen looks unrecognisable as she addresses 'lost career'

Amanda Owen on how 'Our Yorkshire Farm' affects her kids

Amanda Owen, known for her role in Channel 5's docuseries Our Yorkshire Farm, once dabbled in the possibility of a modelling career.

She reminisced about that period during the programme, expressing with a slight chuckle how far reality was from expectation: "When you think you're gonna be a model, you think you're gonna be [in] Vogue, Cosmopolitan, but then you actually end up doing like knitting catalogues. So it was like cardigans, floral, Princess Diana 1980 that kind of look. No thank you! "

Despite this, Amanda isn't mourning the modelling path not taken, as she joyfully recounted the pivotal moment when she stumbled upon Hill Shepherd: A Photographic Essay at her local library.

The book captivated her, as she described: "I saw pictures of people doing what I'm doing now. On the top of a mountain looking out across with their sheepdog and their sheep.

"It was the pictures, it was the landscape, it was the people - everything in that book just appealed to me. It wasn't kind of glossing over the hard side of it, it was very real and very gritty, and atmospheric, but it was just the thought of working in the outdoors and actually doing something."

She now co-presents the Channel 5 docuseries Our Yorkshire Farm (Image: Channel 5)

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Determined, Amanda elaborated on her chosen way of life, defining its appeal: "Having a physical job whereby we're out there feeling the elements, getting windburn, sunburn, rained on, all the rest of it. It sounded like a good idea back then."

Following 22 years of wedded bliss, she and her former spouse Clive Owen decided to part ways in 2022, marking the end of their popular show Our Yorkshire Farm, reports the Mirror.

Clive admitted that he didn't handle the show's success well, confessing: "It was such a change in our life and I sadly made a right mess of things and I had a massive part to play in our relationship ending, a massive part to play.", reports the Mirror

Channel 5's Amanda Owen looks unrecognisable as she addresses 'lost career'

Channel 5's Amanda Owen looks unrecognisable as she addresses 'lost career'

Channel 5's Amanda Owen looks unrecognisable as she addresses 'lost career'

Channel 5's Amanda Owen looks unrecognisable as she addresses 'lost career'

Channel 5's Amanda Owen looks unrecognisable as she addresses 'lost career'